Ms Ursula Crickmay

About me:

Ursula is undertaking a PhD focusing on professional musicians and their creative music workshop practices, using a framework of posthuman theory.  She also works as a researcher on other projects in the School of Education and is currently working on the Arts Council England funded Penryn Creativity Collaboratives. Other recent projects have included the Sci-Arts Creative Teaching Resource and the research programme Dance, Health and Wellbeing: Debating and Moving Forward Methodologies.  She is on the editorial board for the journal Thinking Skills and Creativity, and lectured on the Creative Arts in Education MA Programme as music specialist over the course of four years.

Her background is in the development and management of creative learning programmes with artists, organisations and venues. As Director of Learning at Wigmore Hall she established flagship music programmes in early years, schools, community and dementia care settings, and in recent years redeveloped the South West branch of Live Music Now, working with young professional musicians and communities across the South West of England. 

She is a member of the Creativity and Emergent Educational-Futures network and coordinates a Music Network Group which brings together staff and students from different disciplines with an interest in music in their research - please get in touch if you would be interested in joining.